VY Canis Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1...

unknown but thought to be related to its stellar wind and rotation. VY Canis Majoris is a remote red hypergiant located approximately 3,800 light-years...

UW Canis Majoris is a star in the constellation Canis Major. It is classified as a Beta Lyrae eclipsing contact binary and given the variable star designation...

order of 1,000 to 2,000 R☉. Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni S Persei VY Canis Majoris - potentially the largest star in the Milky Way KY Cygni PZ Cassiopeiae...

(2007) to state that it might be an extreme red hypergiant, much like VY Canis Majoris. It is also stated that Stephenson 2 DFK 1 is on the brink of ejecting...

"Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry". Astronomy and Astrophysics...

sometimes used for the most extended and unstable red supergiants like VY Canis Majoris and NML Cygni. The "red" part of "red supergiant" refers to the cool...

shíèr, English: the Twelfth Star of Flying Serpent) Betelgeuse and VY Canis Majoris, similar cool massive stars that have undergone one or more dimming...

largest galactic red supergiants and hypergiants found elsewhere such as VY Canis Majoris and with theoretical models of the coolest, most luminous and largest...

have been very massive Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A, three among the largest known modern stars...

"Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics...

PC, PC2, HCP and PH3. It was detected in the circumstellar shell of VY Canis Majoris and in the star forming region catalogued as AFGL 5142. The compound...

Plant, Vernon, Vermont, United States VY Canis Majoris, an enormous star VY Piscium or HR 515, a variable star VY Leonis, a red giant Viy (disambiguation)...

C.H.; Spears, D.L. (1977). "Spatial heterodyne tnterferometry of VY Canis Majoris, Alpha Orionis, Alpha Scorpii, and R Leonis at 11 microns". Astrophysical...

rim near VY Canis Majoris". Astrophysical Journal. 219: 95–97, 99–104. Bibcode:1978ApJ...219...95L. doi:10.1086/155758. "Starshine in Canis Major". www...

{\displaystyle q=2\times 10^{-3}} in the long-period variable M star VY Canis Majoris in the H band, ascribing the CP to multiple scattering in circumstellar...

type IIb, IIn, or type Ib/Ic supernova. Stephenson 2 DFK 1 WOH G64 VY Canis Majoris Hog, E.; Kuzmin, A.; Bastian, U.; Fabricius, C.; Kuimov, K.; Lindegren...

among the largest-known stars. 2 Tm – 13.2 au – estimated diameter of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant that is among the largest-known stars 2.142 Tm –...

Size comparison of some well-known supergiant and hypergiant stars, featuring Cygnus OB2-12, V382 Carinae, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris...

Detection of AlO (X2Σ+): Metal Oxide Chemistry in the Envelope of VY Canis Majoris", Astrophysical Journal, 694 (1): L59–L63, Bibcode:2009ApJ...694L....

P.; Lopez, GB; Cruzalebes, P.; et al. (1999). "The Last Gasps of VY Canis Majoris: Aperture Synthesis and Adaptive Optics Imagery". The Astrophysical...

to that of another notable but more extreme cool hypergiant star, VY Canis Majoris, and is also known as a heavily mass-losing OH/IR supergiant. It is...

relatively short period of astronomical time. Very large stars like VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known, together with NML Cygni, VX Sagittarii...

(constellation) Quadrans Muralis Atlas Coelestis Officina Typographica VY Canis Majoris Hockey 2009, p. [page needed]. Chisholm 1911, p. 95. Grier, David Alan...

value for the other red supergiants in the study. F13 is compared with VY Canis Majoris as a similarly extreme red supergiant, both displaying stronger and...

excess, is similar to that of the famous and extreme red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris. However, Stephenson 2 DFK 49 is hotter. The study also estimates the...

Red supergiants like Betelgeuse, Antares, Mu Cephei, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris one of the biggest stars in the Universe, are the biggest variety of...

the Sun, Antares is dwarfed by even larger red supergiants, such as VY Canis Majoris, VV Cephei A, WOH G64, or Mu Cephei. Antares, like the similarly sized...

V1365 Aquilae V1366 Aquilae NSV 25875 W43A S Persei VX Sagittarii VY Canis Majoris AH Scorpii MY Cephei PZ Cassiopeiae IRC −30308 NML Cygni IRC +10420...

retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad" Humphreys, Roberta M.; VY Canis Majoris: The Astrophysical Basis of its Luminosity, arxiv.org, 13 October 2006...